`drop` not `opSlice` should be in the range api

[monkyyy]

On Friday, 10 January 2025 at 21:07:53 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> On Friday, 10 January 2025 at 18:46:33 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
>> Theres a reason allot of code uses .array as glue
>
> It's as it should be. Most of the time you're dealing with 
> relatively small data amounts, so your code doesn't need to be 
> fast. Nothing wrong with unoptimised code.
>
> The result is you can quickly make a good guess whether the 
> code you're reading is efficient for big ranges. Lost of 
> unnecessary `.array`s, `.drop`s and `.take`s means it's 
> probably not.

users code should do the easiest thing that gets the task done

lib code should be more ambitious and Im discussing range api 
design of my lib code